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what is your Only reason to watch this crap...?


i like Vanessa Hudgens, she is so beautiful she is the only reason to watch this movie... i know this movie is a crap but i have a reason. what's yours?

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I thought it was a fun movie. But wtf?

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The double penetration twins! lmao

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ha ha ha.... lmao

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Waiting for the movie that comes after it!!!
Background noise while I am fiddling with my PC!!

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Nothing, as a 17 year old teenager, the thought that I actually spent 94 minutes with cinematic representations of my repulsive, idiotic generation was aggravating to say the least, if my copy wasn't digital, this film would be broken in half and in the trash. There is nothing deep about this film, this is it's only theme: Teenagers are dumb and are able to get in a s#!t-ton of trouble. I get enough of that crap at school, I don't need a film to tell me this, I already know.

Nightcrawler: An extreme satire on the state of news media, now the difference between these two films topics is that even though I know about the state of modern news media, it did it in a way that made everything fascinating, the characters, the atmosphere, and of course the cleaver tongue in cheek satire.

Spring Breakers didn't do any if that, it just says that teenagers are dumb, especially during spring break. First off, there's nothing really cleaver to say about that, teenage life isn't ripe full of social commentary because, news flash, teenage life is boring, seriously, we live, we enjoy the arts (music, video games, movies, etc.), we do school, we party, we sleep, and maybe have sex. That's it, so the fact that someone thought this was a good idea for a movie obviously needs to either stop making movies or go back to their idea board.

Now before you ask me "Then how come movies that we think feel similar, like Pain & Gain and The Wolf of Wall Street should be made?" I tell you a few things, firstly, these are stories that happened in real life, which is already intriguing as it's so weird to see such crazy, silly crap happen in real life, sure some stuff was fictionalized, but those two stayed pretty close to their source material, "The Wolf Wall Street (book) and Pain & Gain (The Miami Times Article). Secondly, these films are actually commentaries on the American Dream, how far do people go to get that false legend of the American Dream. These films not only had intriguing characters, but also used stories that should be told, which made for interesting films, films that used these stories in order to question our thoughts about what the "American Dream" means but they use characters that are layered and have more intriguing characteristics then any of the characters in Spring Breakers. Spring Breakers take a nothing age group in a age where there's better things that should be being critiqued. Why do you think most of our movies involving teens are having them in apocalyptic situations where they have to protect themselves, because that's the only way they're interesting, that's the only way we can actually make decent characters for them. Until a modern director can figure out how John Hughes succeed on how to make teens interesting with films like The Breakfast Club, it's best if we don't try to portray teens in a realistic way, because your film will begin a downward spiral if you do.

Breakers also did one of the biggest sin in film, you don't show that the characters can easily get out and then give them a sub-par reason for them to stay in the lion's den, Two of the girls were able to just hop on a bus because things got too crazy, and the other two stay because, reasons. This all goes back that the main premise that teens are stupid, so you feel no sympathy to the idiots that stay because they're just idiots. At least in Pain & Gain, sure the criminals are freaking stupid, but they still have a dangerous and disturbed mind that shows us that no matter what happens these are not good people and their downward spiral is one they dug themselves into all because of their greed and displeasure with their adult lives (displeasure with teenage live is less interesting), they wanted in the situation and there was no way out of it and they stay with it because they tasted blood and they wanted more. In Breakers, not only did they stay in the situation because of nothing but stupid teenage girl reasons, but they didn't even really wanted to be in the situation, Alien bailed them out randomly.

P.S. I watched it the first time because some friends told me it was like Pain & Gain, I'm no longer acquainted with those people.

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Well *beeping* said!


something terribly clever.

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Only on the internet, can people with ZERO film experience(and apparently No Life), sit behind a keyboard and suddenly become a film critic! Why would anyone listen to you? What movies have You made? What have you contributed that makes you any better!? I would really like to see what makes you so qualified to judge a movie,(considering the many awards it won). I doubt you have 1/16th the talent Franco has in his Pinky alone. At least Franco isn't afraid to take a chance, at least he actually has DRIVE to do something with his life! People KNOW who franco is...NO ONE cares who you are! Jealously maybe? I think so...

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My reason was the same, Vanessa Hudgens. And I still regret watching it, lol.

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selena and vanessa

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I heard it was memorable and over the top. And it was.

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My reasons would be:
1) I am a fan of Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens.
2) I want to see James Franco's award-winning performance that critics raved about.
3) I love weird surreal movies with a sense of humor.
4) This movie looks beautiful.
5) Academic-type film watchers love this movie for reasons I mention above, in addition to it having interesting layers and subtext. It's the kind of movie that gets you thinking.

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